Carnage to face off against Tom Hardy as the big bad in the 'Venom' movie!

Plans for a Venom movie where around for well over a decade; David Goyer’s New Line version before Spider-Man 3, a spin-off from Spider-Man 3 itself, and even a couple of incarnations in the Amazing Spider-Man series. One idea has popped up over and over again in all these different iterations, and that’s Venom as an anti-hero fighting the crazy symbiote Carnage. 

Now, with english actor Tom Hardy in the lead role of a movie that’s actually happening (maybe, we know what sonyou are like), it seems like this eXtremely ‘90s idea will finally come to full fruition.

THR (Hollywood Reporter) reports that the villain will appear in next year’s average Sony Spin-Off Universe (come up with a better name and I’ll give you a fiver), and honestly, we’ve been kind of preparing for this possibility for the last ten fucking years. 

For those unaware (who the fuck doesn't know Carnage, wake up), Carnage is basically Venom – a superpowered symbiote latching itself on to a host and taking over – only he’s red and the first host he finds is sociopathic murderer Cletus Kassidy.

Just how potentially edgy could this villain be? Well here’s a list of just some of the things he's done:

- Murdered his grandmother

- Tried to kill his mother with a hair dryer

- Tortured his dog to death with a power drill

- Murdered an official at an orphanage

- Burnt down said orphanage

- Pushed a girl in front of a bus when she refused to date him

That was all just when he was a kid, mind you. Good old Cletus Kassidy went on to do a whole lot more murdering as a grown up before going to prison, where he shared a cell with Eddie Brock. It was here that the Venom symbiote reproduced and its spawn bonded with Cassidy – oh yeah Carnage is basically Venom’s kid – and the rest, as they say, is history...

So, who’s excited?! Venom arrives October 5^th 2018 if it "sticks" to the plan.